Grants and Prizes
An important component of the Nevzlin Center’s work is the support of original research in Israel on Russian and East European Jewry. An annual grant competition is held by the Center for M.A. and doctoral students, and post-doctoral researchers. The Center also awards annual prizes for outstanding doctoral and masters theses in our field. Our grants have helped more than 100 scholars complete their work and assisted in the publication of many monographs and scholarly articles (see separate list).
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2021-2022
Prize for an Outstanding PhD Thesis:
Yael Levi (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"The Emergence of the Yiddish and Hebrew Press in the United States, 1870–1900: Culture, Law, and Politics"
Prize for an Outstanding M.A. Thesis:
Emma Zohar (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
""For a New World!" Politics, Education and Culture in the Jewish-Polish Sphere, 1916-1939"
Hanna Sloutski (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"Subbotnik Women: Practice and Identity"
Post-Doctoral Research Grants:
Yael Levi (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
"Lost in Migration – Rethinking Ethnicity, Gender, and Acculturation: Suicide among Jewish Immigrant Women in the United States, 1880–1924"
Michael Lukin (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"Yiddish Folk Songs: The Performance Tradition According to the Ethnographic Recordings Uncovered in the 21st Century"
Ph.D. Research Grant:
Eduard Ben Zeev (University of Haifa)
"The "Conservative Triumvirate", the Jews and the Formation of the "Russian Idea" in the 60s-80 of the 19th century"
M.A. Research Grants:
Julija Levin (Tel Aviv University)
"Jewish Society and Crime in Vilna: The Plight of Jewish Women through the Lens of the Russian Imperial Courts, 1844 to 1900"
Tsviela Krikunetz (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
"Transformation through the Body: Circumcision Among Immigrants from the USSR and Their Children in Israel"
2020-2021
M.A. Research Grant
Elizabeth Wasserman-Slutsky (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"Education of the Children of Aliyah Activists and Refuseniks in the USSR in the 1980s: with Emphasis on Children Oriented Cultural and Community Activities"
Ph.D. Research Grant
Natalie Beige (Tel Aviv University)
"As the Sky Darkened: The Jews in the Siauliai Region During World War II and the Holocaust: 1941-1944"
Alina Polovinchyk (Ariel University)
"Karaite Library Karay Bitikligi: History, Formation, Contents"
Post-Doctoral Research Grants
Dr. Chen Bram
"Jews and Christians in Soviet Georgia: Locality, Ethnic Boundaries and Intimacy between Groups"
Dr. Sylvia Hershcovitz (Bar-Ilan University)
"A Missing Link: Jewish Women and Their Organizations in Romania in the First Half of the 20th Century"
2019-2020
Prize for an Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis:
Dr. Michael Lukin (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"The Yiddish Folk Song: Poetics and Music
Prize for an Outstanding M.A. Thesis:
Mr. Moshe Dovid Chechik
"The Struggle over Ashkenazi Legacy in Poland: The Printing of Shulhan Arich in Poland and the Reactions to It"
M.A. Research Grant:
Ms. Victoria Alexeeva (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"Bibliography and Works of the Yiddish Writer Israel Rabon"
Ms. Elizabet (Liza) Slutsky (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"The Education of the Children of the Jewish Activists and Refuseniks in the Soviet Union in the 1980s"
Ph.D. Research Grant:
Ms.Julia Rusakova (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"Jewish involvement in the landholdings and leasing monopoly rights in Lutsk district of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1569-1647"
Post-Doctoral Research Grants:
Dr. Anat Vaturi (School of Economics, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya)
"Jewish Childcare and Human Capital Investment in Eastern Europe in the Long 19th Century"
"Am ve-Olam" Scholarships for Outstanding M.A. Students (in Memory of Bela and Shlomo Bartal):
Ms. Elizabet (Liza) Slutsky (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"The Education of the Children of the Jewish Activists and Refuseniks in the Soviet Union in the 1980s"
Mr. Avraham O. Kelman (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"The Philosophical Writings of Rabbi Moses Isserles"
2018-2019
Prize for an Outstanding M.A. Thesis:
Ms. Alexandra Mandelbom (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"The Circular Model in Likutey Moharan of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov"
Post-Doctoral Research Grants:
Dr. Roee Y. Goldschmidt (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
"Kabbalah in Eastern Europe"
Dr. Miriam Szamet (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"Her Rebellion is Nothing but a Corridor of Constructive Action:
Puah Rakovsky and her Involvement in Girls' Education, Feminism, Zionism and Socialism in Eastern Europe (1865-1955)"
Dr. Anat Vaturi (University of Haifa)
"Fifty Shades of Religious Tolerance: Models and Practices in Early Modern and Modern Eastern Europe"
Dr. Daria Daria Vasyutinsky (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
"Avraham Firkowicz, the Northern Caucasus, and the First Firkowicz Collection of Manuscripts"
"Am ve-Olam" Scholarships for Outstanding M.A. Students (in Memory of Bela and Shlomo Bartal):
Ms. Victoria Alexeeva (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"Bibliography and Works of the Yiddish Writer Israel Rabon"
Mr. Avraham O. Kelman (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"The Philosophical Writings of Rabbi Moses Isserles"
2017-2018
Prize for an Outstanding M.A. Thesis:
Ms. Bilha Shilo (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
""Funem Folk, Farn Folk, Mitn Folk": The Restitution of YIVO's Collections after the Second World War"
Ms. Meirav Reuveny (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"Hebraist in Berlin: Shai Ish Hurwitz and He-Atid (1903-1914), Historical Consciousness and the Hebrew Language Revival"
Research Grants for Ph.D. Candidates:
Ms. Yael Levy (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"Transition of the Jewish Print from Eastern Europe to USA in the second half of the 19 Century"
Julia Rusakova (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"Jewish involvement in the landholdings and leasing monopoly rights in Lutsk district of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1569-1647"
Mr. Yitzhak Sleiter (Ben Gurion University )
"Nationalism, Mysticism and Modernity in the Thought of Rabbi Shmuel Alexandrov"
Post-Doctoral Research Grants:
Dr. Alex Valdman (Ben Gurion University)
"The ‘Woman Question’ as a ‘Jewish Question:’ Gender, Activism and Jewishness among the Jewish Students in Late Imperial Russia"
2016 -2017
Prize for an Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis:
Dr. Gil Weissblei (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"The Revival of the Hebrew Book Art in Weimar Germany"
Prize for an Outstanding M.A. Thesis:
Daphna Dolinko (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"Soviet Policy toward the Ukrainian State Jewish Theater in Chernivtsi in 1944-1950: from Support and Extension to the Persecution and Elimination"
Research Grants for M.A. students:
Lee Bartov (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
"A Temple of a Desperate Man - The Philosophy of Lev Shestov and Its Acceptance at the Hebrew Culture in the Early Twentieth Century"
Research Grants for Ph.D. Candidates:
Zvi Orgad (Bar Ilan University)
"Eliezer-Zusman: An Eighteenth-Century Synagogue Painter at Work"
Yulia Rusakova (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"Jewish involvement in the landholdings and leasing monopoly rights in Lutsk district of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, 1569-1647"
Isaac Slater (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
"Nationalism, Mysticism and Modernity in the Thought of Rabbi Shmuel Alexandrov"
Daria Vasyutinsky (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
"Avraham Harkavy, the Firkowicz Collections, and Contemporary Orientalists"
Post-Doctoral Research Grants:
Dr. Chen Bram (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"Migration and Cultural Identity: Children and Youth Repatriates from the Caucasus: between Labeling and Dialogue
Dr. Anat Vaturi (Tel Aviv University)
"Beyond Theology? Everyday Encounters between Jews and Protestants in Post-Reformation Cracow"
2015-2016
Prize for an Outstanding M.A. Thesis:
Naama Seri-Levi (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
""The Human Material is Far Superior to its Predecessors": The Jewish Repatriates in the Displaced Persons Camps 1946-1947"
Post-Doctoral Research Grants:
Prof. Zakhar Shybeka (Independent Scholar)
"An Outline of Jewish Trade in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from the End of the 14th Century to the End of the 18th Century"|
Dr. Rafael Tsirkin-Sadan (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"Hundred Years Together: Hebrew Literature and Russian Literature, 1850 – 1950"
Dr. Edward Waysband (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"Responses of Russian Press and Literature to Polish-Jewish Tensions at the Beginning of the First World War
Dr. Arie Yariv (Tel Aviv University)
"The Karaite community in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania: Five centuries of Jewish existence"
Research Grants for Ph.D. Candidates:
Daria Vasiutinski (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
"Early Stages of Research of the Firkowicz Collections: The Emergence of Russian Jewish Studies"
Zvi Orgad (Bar Ilan University)
"Eliezer-Zusman: An Eighteenth-Century Synagogue Painter at Work"
2014-2015
Prize for an Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation:
Dr. Diego Rotman (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"Performance as Cultural Critique: On Dzigan & Shumacher Theater (1927-1980)"
Post-Doctoral Research Grants:
Dr. Chen Bram (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
"Intergroup Intimacy and its Limits: Jewish-Muslim Relations in Central Asia, the Caucasus, and Israel"
Dr. Pnina Dolberg (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
"Soviet Jews in Israel: A Longitudinal Research on the Cultural Identity of the 1970's Immigrants from the Soviet Union"
Research Grants for Ph.D. Candidates:
Alex Valdman (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
"The Making of Russian-Jewish Intelligentsia: Jewish Pupils and Students in Late 19th Century Russia"
Ayala Keissar-Sugarman
"Ethno-national categories of identity in the narratives of mixed origin Jewish Russian speaking youngsters in Israel"
Research Grants for M.A. Candidates:
Inna Gorstein (Bar Ilan University)
"Freedom and Its Price: Michael Yakhilevich, Restricted Self-Expression of a Jewish Artist in the Soviet Union and Israel"
Patrick Monson (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"Jewish Migration to Tartu, 1881-1897"
2013-2014
Prize for an Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation:
Dr. Shmuel Barnai
"Soviet Jews in the Post-Stalin Era, 1953-1964"
Research Grants for Ph.D. Candidates:
Dan Haruv (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"The Nation and the Bible: The Simon Dubnov's Picture of the Biblical Past (1883-1924)"
Oleg Zhidkov (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
"A History of the Jewish Settlement in Eastern Ukraine, 1649-1772"
Post-Doctoral Research Grants:
Dr. Naomi Cohn Zentner
"The Singing of Zemirot Shabbat among the Jews of Galicia and Bukovina"
Dr. Nelly Portnova
"A.Z. Steinberg’s Existential Prose"
2012-2013
Prize for an Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation:
Dr. Roni Be'er Marx
"Between Seclusion and Adaptation: The Newspaper HaLevanon and East European Orthodox Society's Facing up to Modern Challenges"
Research Grants for Ph.D. Candidates:
Oleg Zhidkov (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
"A History of the Jewish Settlement in Eastern Ukraine, 1649-1772"
Post-Doctoral Research Grants:
Dr. Ido Bassok (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"The Book of Man: Biography of Shaul Tchernichovsky"
Dr. Chen Bram (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"Multi-Ethnic Networks as a Way of Life: the Jews of the Caucasus and Bukharian Jews as Case Studies for the Research of Jewish Boundaries in Diverse Societies"
Dr. Ben-Zion Klibansky (Tel Aviv University)
"The Network of Novardok: A Radical Avant-Garde Movement in the Russian Empire and East European Countries"
Dr. Viacheslav Konstantinov (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"20 Years since the “Mass Aliyah" of the 1990s from the FSU: An Analysis of Statistical Changes""
2011-2012
Research Grants for Ph.D. Candidates:
Yael Maayan (Hebrew University if Jerusalem)
"Yerushalayim De Lita? The Images of the City in Modernization Processes through the Eyes of the Wilno Jews, 1855 – 1905"
Svetlana Natkovich (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
"A Casanova from Wilno: Lost Diaries of Avraham Uri Kovner"
Daniel Reiser (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"Imagery or Waking Dream Techniques in Hasidic Mysticism in the First Half of the Twentieth Century"
Ilya Vovshin (Haifa University)
"The Ginsburg Family and the Formation of the Jewish Plutocracy in the Russian Empire"
Prize for an Outstanding M.A. Thesis:
Miriam Szamet (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"The Life of Puah Rakovsky, a “Revolutionary Jewish Woman”, 1865 - 1955"
2010-2011
Prize for an Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation:
Dr. Ilya Lurie (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"Lubavich and its Wars: The Struggle of Chabad Hassidism for the Image of Jewish Society in Tsarist Russia"
Post-Doctoral Research Grants:
Dr. Golda Akhiezer (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"Researching the Crimean Karaites' Hebrew Chronicles of the 18th-19th Centuries"
Dr. Chen Bram (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"Bukhara and the Caucasus Jews: Local Identities and Contacts with their Environment"
Dr. Isaiah Gruber (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"Hebrew and Jewish Themes in Russian Identity"
Dr. Zeev Levin (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"Jewish Refugees in the Soviet Union during the Second World War"
Dr. Ben Peters (Hebrew University of Jerusalem & Columbia University)
"The Soviet Internet and the Twentieth-Century Imagination of Digital Media"
Dr. Eduard Vaisband (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"The Polish-Jewish Conflict at the Beginning of the First World War in the Russian Press and Literature"
Research Grants for Ph.D. Candidates:
Natanel Kantorovich (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"Reality or a Dream? Jewish Settlement in the Land of Israel and the Soviet Union, 1933-1945"
Boris Tarnopolsky (Haifa University)
"Relations between Jews and Christians in the Pale of Settlement from the Second Half of the 19th Century until the First World War: Gomel as a Test-Case"
Rafi Tsirkin-Sadan (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"The Reception of Leo Tolstoy in Jewish Culture"
Anat Vaturi (Tel Aviv University)
"Peaceful Neighborliness of Jews, Protestants and Catholics in Cracow – Kazimierz, 1520-1655"
Ilya Vovshin (Haifa University)
"The Ginzburg Family and the Creation of the Jewish Plutocracy in the Russian Empire"
2009-2010
Research Grants for Ph.D. Candidates:
Boris Gerus (Tel Aviv University)
"The Work of Jozef Koffler and his Place in Polish Music"
Yonatan Meir (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"Imagined Hasidism: Satire, Reality and Perception of 'The Book' in the Anti-Hasidic Writings of Joseph Perl"
Boris Tarnopolsky (Haifa University)
"Relations between Jews and Christians in the Pale of Settlement from the Second Half of the 19th Century until the First World War: Gomel as a Test-Case"
Rona Yona (Tel Aviv University)
"'Let Us all be Pioneers': Pioneership and Mass Nationalism in the HeHalutz Movement during the Interwar Era"
2008-2009
Prizes for Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertations:
Dr. Vladimir Levin
"Jewish Politics in the Era of Reaction in the Russian Empire, 1907 - 1914"
Dr. Kiril Feferman
"The Holocaust in the Caucasus and Crimea"
Research Grants for Ph.D. Candidate:
Shmuel Barnai (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"The Grey Years? Soviet Jewry during the Post-Stalin Era, 1953-1964"
2007-2008
Prize for an Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertation:
Dr. Scott Uri
"Red Flag, Blue Stripes: Radical Politics, Democratic Institutions and the Collective Identity of Warsaw Jews, 1904 - 1907"
Prize for an Outstanding B.A. Seminar Paper:
Ifat Ehrlich
"The Fate of Children from the Vilna Ghetto in the Concentration Camps in Estonia and Riga"
Post-Doctoral Research Grants:
Dr. Boris Khaimovich (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"The Genesis of 'Personal Motifs' on Jewish Tombstone Reliefs in Eastern Europe as a Reflection of the Process of Individualization"
Dr. Paweł Maciejko (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"Ritual Murder Accusations in Early Modern Poland-Lithuania"
Dr. Yehudit Kalik (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"The Jewish Settlement in the Western Borderlands of Russia from 1654 until the Partition of Poland"
Research Grants for Ph.D. Candidates:
Adva Zeltser (Bar-Ilan University)
"'My Soul Still Aspires to Freedom': Growing up in a Jewish Family in Poland between the World Wars"
Alex Valdman (Ben Gurion University of Negev)
"Perezhitoe. Collections of Essays on the Social and Cultural History of Russian Jewry: Background, Context and Influence"
Ben-Zion Klibansky (Tel Aviv University)
"Lithuanian Yeshivas in Eastern Europe during the Interwar Period"
Erzsebet Mislovics (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"The Demographic and Economic History of Hungarian Jewry during the Preindustrial Era, 1700-1830"
Gad Sagiv (Tel Aviv University)
"Chernobyl Hasidism: History and Teaching from its Beginnings until the First World War"
Ido Bassok (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"Social, Educational and Psychological Factors in the World of Jewish Youth in Small and Medium-Sized Towns in Poland between the World Wars"
Kalman Notarius (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"Jewish Historical Writing about the Crisis of 1648–1649 and the Birth of the National Historical Narrative"
Masha Grobman (Bar-Ilan University)
"Architecture of Stone Synagogues in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania from the mid-16th Century until the End of the 18th Century"
Natanel Kantorovich (Tel Aviv University)
"Reality or a Dream? Jewish Settlement in the Land of Israel and the Soviet Union, 1933-1945"
Shmuel Barnai (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"Zionist Activity in the Soviet Union during the 1950s and 1960s"
Shoshana Shferber (Tel Aviv University)
"Yitzhak Isaac Lubetzky: Narrator and Critic"
Witold Medikovsky (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"Between Slavery, Destruction and Survival: Forced Labor of Jews during the Period of the General Gouvernement, 1939-1943"
Vladislav Sokolovsky, z"l (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"Yiddish Travel Literature between the World Wars"
Sarah Friedland Ben-Arza (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"Homiletic Principles in the Non-Halakhic Writings of Rabbi Zadoq Ha-Cohen of Lublin"
2006-2007
Prizes for Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertations:
Dr. Semion Goldin
"Russian Jewry under Tzarist Military Rule during the First World War"
Dr. Viacheslav Konstantinov
"Changes in Educational and Professional Structure as an Indicator of the Socio-Economic Status of Jews in the USSR: An Historical Perspective".
Dr. Hagit Cohen (Bar-Ilan University)
"Between the Demands of Integration and the Challenges of Ethnization: The Yiddish 'Book' and Reading among East European Jewish Immigrants to America, 1890-1930"
Prizes for Outstanding M.A. Theses:
Zehavit Stern
"Yiddish Cinematographic Melodrama: a Portrait of a Restless Culture"
Diego Rotman
"Yiddish Language and Yiddish Theater in Israel"
Post-Doctoral Research Grants:
Dr. Haim Gertner (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"Rabbis and Rabbinical Judges in Galicia during the First Half of the 19th Century: A Typology of a Traditional Leadership in Crisis"
Dr. Louisa Hecht (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"The יידישדייטשע מאנאטשריפט (Prague, 1802). A Chapter in the Diffusion of Haskalah to Eastern Europe"
Dr. Zvi Mark (Bar-Ilan University)
"The Moharan of Rabbi Naftaly:" a New Biographical Manuscript on Rabbi Nachman of Bratslav"
Dr. Yehudit Kalik (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"The Council of Four Lands during the 18th Century: Structure and Geographical Distribution"
Research Grants for Ph.D. Candidates:
Marie Crhova (Hebrew University of Jerusalem & Central European University)
“Jews and Left-Wing Ideologies in Interwar Czechoslovakia”
Uriel Gelman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"Hasidism in Poland during the First Half of the 19th Century: Typologies of Group Leadership and Community"
Maoz Kahana (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"The Writing of Halakhah in a Changing World: the Work of Rabbi Moshe Sofer (Hatam Sofer), 1762-1839"
Ben-Zion Klibansky (Tel Aviv University)
"Lithuanian Yeshivas in Eastern Europe between the World Wars"
János Kőbányai (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
“Creating Jewish Culture in Hungary: Jozsef Patai and his Journal Past and Future, 1911-1944”
Nurit Orhan (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"Women’s Participation in the Yiddish press in the Russian Empire, 1881-1914"
Gad Sagiv (Tel Aviv University)
"Chernobyl Hasidism: History and Teaching from its Beginning until the First World War"
2005-2006
Prizes for Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertations:
Dr. Roni Biran
"Folk Stories of Polish Jews between the World Wars"
Dr. Haim Gertner
"Rabbis and Rabbinical Judges in Galicia in the First Half of the 19th Century: A Typology of Traditional Leadership in Crisis"
Dr. Arkady Zelzer
"The Jews of North-East Belarus between the World Wars"
Prizes for Outstanding M.A. Theses:
Uriel Gelman
"Sefer Hasidim: A Censored Essay Condemning Hasidism and its Place in the Struggle between Hasidim and Mitnagdim"
Vladislav Sokolovsky, z"l
"Perspectives on Jewish and Cultural Identity among New Immigrants from the USSR and the C.I.S in Russian-Language Journalism in Israel"
Research Grants for Ph.D. Candidates:
Shmuel Barnai (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"The Grey Years? Soviet Jewry in the Post-Stalin Era, 1953-1964"
Ben-Zion Klibansky (Tel Aviv University)
"Lithuanian Yeshivas in Eastern Europe between the World Wars"
János Kőbányai (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"Creating Jewish Culture in Hungary: Jozsef Patai and his Periodical Past and Future, 1911-1944"
Vladimir Levin (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"Russian Jewry between the First Russian Revolution and the First World War: Political Forces and Cultural Politics"
Hendrika Van Luit (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"The Austrian Educational System and the Maskil as a Civil Servant: German-Jewish Schools in Galicia and the Activities of Herz Homberg and Josef Perl, 1786-1848"
Neli Oren-Monovich (Tel Aviv University)
"The Jewish Policy of the Communist Regime in Poland after the Holocaust, 1944-1951"
Mariana Prigozhina (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"Modern Russian-Jewish Literature in Israel, Germany and the USA: Humor and Satire -- Jewish Tradition in Migration".
Post-Doctoral Research Grants:
Dr. Semion Goldin (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"Russian Jews under Tzarist Army Rule during the First World War"
Dr. Hagit Cohen (Bar Ilan University)
"Between the Demands of Integration and the Challenges of Ethnization: The Yiddish 'Book' and Reading among East European Jewish Immigrants to America, 1890-1930"
Dr. Louise Hecht (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"Textbooks in Context: Narratives of Jewish Textbooks in the Habsburg Monarchy (1782-1867) from a Cultural and Literary Perspective"
Dr. Dmitry Shumsky (Haifa University)
"Czech-German Jewry, Prague Zionists and the Beginnings of Ethno-National Criticism in Zionism, 1900-1921"
Dr. Vladimir Kirsanov (Independent Scholar)
"The 'Jewish Question' in Russian Prose during the Second Half of the 19th Century"
Dr. Judith Kalik (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"The Council of Four Lands during the 18th Century: Structure and Geographical Distribution"
Dr. Leonid Yuniverg (Independent Scholar)
"The Contribution of Jewish Publishing Houses to Russian Culture from the Second Half of the 19th Century until the Dawn of the 20th Century"
2004-2005
Research Grants for M.A. Candidates:
Hanan Harif (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"Charisma, Institutionalization, Continuity and Change in the ‘Novardoc’ Movement from its Beginnings until the Second World War"
Research Grants for Ph.D. Candidates:
Scott Ury (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"Red Banner, Blue Star: Revolutionary Politics, Democratic Institutions and Collective Identity among Jews in Warsaw, 1904-1907"
Vladimir Levin (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"Russian Jews between the First Russian Revolution and the First World War: Political Forces and the Politics of Culture"
János Kőbányai (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"Creating Jewish Culture in Hungary: József Patai and his Periodical Past and Future, 1911-1944"
Erzsebet Mislovics (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"The Demographic and Economic History of Hungarian Jewry in the Pre-Industrial Era, 1700-1830"
Sara Friedland Ben-Arza (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"Homiletic Principles in the Non-Hallachic Writings of Rabbi Zadoq Ha-Cohen of Lublin"
Golda Ahiezer (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"Patterns and Trends in the Development of Historic Identity among East European Karaites from the 17th to the 19th Centuries"
Ravital Amiran Sapir (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"Self-Salvation in the Jewish National Revival Movement"
Nelly Oren-Monovich (Tel Aviv University)
"The Policy of the Communist Regime in Poland toward Jews after the Holocaust"
Grants for Post-Doctoral Research:
Dr. Guy Miron (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"Representations of the Past in 'Emancipated Jewry' during its Decline: the Historical Discourse among Jewish Publics in Germany, France and Hungary"
Dr. Louise Hecht (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"Textbooks in Context: Narratives of Jewish Textbooks in the Habsburg Monarchy (1782-1867) from a Cultural and Literary Perspective"
Dr. Rachel Manekin (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"From Jewish-Poles to Austrian Citizens: Galician Jewry on the Road to Modernization, 1840-1867"
Dr. Benni Brown (Bar-Ilan University)
"The Power of Simplicity: Hafetz Haim, his Worldview, Halakhic Rulings and Influence on 20th Century Orthodoxy"
Dr. Zvi Mark (Bar-Ilan University)
"Stories by Rabbi Nahman of Bratslav Excluded from Sipurey ma`asiyout: Research and Preparation of a Critical Edition"
Dr. Ela Bauer (Haifa University)
"The Impact of Differing Secular Intellectual Climates on Jewish Diasporas: The Polish Intelligentsia, the German Bildung and the Jews"
Dr. Alexander Zanemonets (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"Jewish Society and Culture in the Balkans during the Late Middle Ages"
Dr. Dina Zisserman-Brodsky (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
"Jewish Women in Late Imperial Russia as Agents of Modernity"
2003-2004
Prize for an Outstanding B.A. Seminar Paper:
Uriel Gelman
"A Chapter in the Cultural History of the Hasidic Movement in the Eyes of its Opponents"
Prizes for Outstanding M.A. Theses:
Maoz Kahana
"Stability and Change in the Responsa of Rabbi Moshe Sofer"
Kalman Notarius
"Natan Neta Hanover and Jewish Historiography in Poland during the mid-17th Century"
Eliezer Sariel
"The Historian in the Service of the Torah: The Historiographic Approach of Rabbi Yitzhak Isaac Ha-Levi"
Nurit Orhan
"Women Writers in the Yiddish Press, 1881-1903"
Shmuel Barnai
"Stages in the Development of the Ukrainian National Movement during the Central Rada, March 1917-April 1918"
Prizes for Outstanding Ph.D. Dissertations:
Dr. Ilia Rodov
"The Development of Medieval and Renaissance Sculptural Decoration in Ashkenazi Synagogues from Worms to the Cracow Area"
Dr. David Silberklang
"The Holocaust in the Province of Lublin"
Dr. Zoya Kopelman
"The Presence of Mikhail Lermontov in Hebrew Poetry from the mid-19th Century"
*All prizes were awarded to Hebrew University students or post-doctoral researchers.